Angels of Paris:

An Architectural Tour Through the History of Paris

by Rosemary Flannery

$19.95 List Price

Saturday, December 1

3:00pm

Angels of Paris: An Architectural Tour through the History of Paris

A memorable gift for Francophiles and armchair travelers, this delightful book captures the fanciful and romantic spirit of Paris through images of the countless angels that grace the city’s fountains and facades, monuments and mansions, rooftops, doorways, and window frames.
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A memorable gift for Francophiles and armchair travelers, this delightful book captures the fanciful and romantic spirit of Paris through images of the countless angels that grace the city’s fountains and facades, monuments and mansions, rooftops, doorways, and window frames.

These Things Happen

by Richard Kramer

$24.95 List Price

Sunday, December 2

4:00pm

Richard Kramer in conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn

Richard Kramer's new novel These Things Happen is set in Manhattan and told through a cast of familiar, sympathetic voices. It's the story of Wesley, a bright, sensitive and self-conscious teenager who moves from his mother and step-father's home to live with his gay and hitherto elusive father. When…

Richard Kramer's new novel These Things Happen is set in Manhattan and told through a cast of familiar, sympathetic voices. It's the story of Wesley, a bright, sensitive and self-conscious teenager who moves from his mother and step-father's home to live with his gay and hitherto elusive father. When Wesley and his best friend Theo become victims of random violence, the fragile structure of his family is shattered and they are forced to confront their real feelings. Trauma makes them authentic.

Games without Rules:

The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

by Tamim Ansary

$27.99 List Price

Sunday, December 2

4:00pm

Games Without Rules: A Discussion About Afghanistan

Join Tamim Ansary, Sahar Muradi, and Zohra Saed for a discussion about the history and present day realities of Afghanistan, a country very much at the center of current political debate.
About Games Without Rules:
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy…

Join Tamim Ansary, Sahar Muradi, and Zohra Saed for a discussion about the history and present day realities of Afghanistan, a country very much at the center of current political debate.

About Games Without Rules:

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam.

Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out, and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood. It is the story of a nation struggling to take form, a nation undermined by its own demons while, every 40 to 60 years, a great power crashes in and disrupts whatever progress has been made. Told in conversational, storytelling style, and focusing on key events and personalities, Games without Rules provides revelatory insight into a country at the center of political debate.

Masterpieces of Orientalist Art:

The Shafik Gabr Collection

by ACR Edition

$395.00 List Price

Tuesday, December 4

5:30pm

Masterpieces of Orientalist Art: The Shafik Gabr Collection

Join us for the launch of this sumptuous volume showcasing Shafik Gabr’s unsurpassed collection of Orientalist art, including masterpieces by many of the major nineteenth and twentieth century Orientalists.

Tuesday, December 4

7:00pm

Double Take Reading Series

Join us for the third Double Take Reading, organized by Albert Mobilio, where three pairs of authors read original shorts written about a shared experience. Featuring:
Susan Daitch & Christopher Beha on the New York Aquarium
Richard Price & Lorraine Adams on going home
Jennifer Gilmore & Joanna …

Wednesday, December 5

7:00pm

A Child Turns Back to Wave: Poetry of Lost Places with Peter Carroll

Peter Neil Carroll has written about place in America both as an historian and as a poet. His poetry is inspired by travels around the country exploring lost landscapes, history, and culture from the Black Hills and New Mexico desert to the Ohio Valley. This second collection, A Child Turns Back to…

Peter Neil Carroll has written about place in America both as an historian and as a poet. His poetry is inspired by travels around the country exploring lost landscapes, history, and culture from the Black Hills and New Mexico desert to the Ohio Valley. This second collection, A Child Turns Back to Wave: Poetry of Lost Places, won the Prize Americana

Seducing Mr. Knightly

by Maya Rodale

$7.99 List Price

Wednesday, December 5

7:00pm

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Romance Novels

Find out everything you ever wanted to know about writing, publishing, and reading romance novels but were afraid (or never had the chance) to ask! Authors Maya Rodale (Seducing Mr. Knightly) and Miranda Neville (The Importance of Being Wicked), Avon editor Tessa Woodward, and RT’s Morgan Doremus…

Find out everything you ever wanted to know about writing, publishing, and reading romance novels but were afraid (or never had the chance) to ask! Authors Maya Rodale (Seducing Mr. Knightly) and Miranda Neville (The Importance of Being Wicked), Avon editor Tessa Woodward, and RT’s Morgan Doremus will discuss the popular genre from all the angles, take questions, and Rodale and Neville will sign.

Alibis:

Essays on Elsewhere

by André Aciman

$16.00 List Price

Friday, December 7

7:00pm

André Aciman- Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere

Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on…

Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.

Monday, December 10

6:30pm

Artful Dining: An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prolific authors of our time. Her novels include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, A Garden of Earthly Delights, them, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, and dozens of others. Her canon also includes numerous collections of short stories, poetry, essays and memoirs, young…

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prolific authors of our time. Her novels include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, A Garden of Earthly Delights, them, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, and dozens of others. Her canon also includes numerous collections of short stories, poetry, essays and memoirs, young adult fiction, and plays. Join the two-time O. Henry Award winning writer as she discusses her illustrious career and creative process.

Endangered

by Eliot Schrefer

$17.99 List Price

Tuesday, December 11

7:00pm

Literary BFFs: Eliot Schrefer with David Levithan

Literary BFFs is a series hosted by David Gutkowski, aka Largehearted Boy, where authors are paired up with the people who know them all too well — their best friends.
Bonobos: They’re just like us, except they’re apes. In Eliot Schrefer’s Endangered, a girl with no fondness for these clever…

Literary BFFs is a series hosted by David Gutkowski, aka Largehearted Boy, where authors are paired up with the people who know them all too well — their best friends.

Bonobos: They’re just like us, except they’re apes. In Eliot Schrefer’s Endangered, a girl with no fondness for these clever monkeys is forced to travel to the Congo to a bonobo sanctuary when revolution breaks out. Girl, and apes, must escape into the jungle and rely on each other to survive.

Schrefer will be in conversation with his friend David Levithan, editor at Scholastic, and author of many books, most recently, Every Day. Levithan will grill Schrefer about his book, and perhaps also uncover some humiliating details only a best friend would know.

$15.00 List Price

Tuesday, December 11

7:00pm

Come in from the fall chill and listen to two wonderful poets, who are also good friends, read from their latest work and then interview each other. Tracy K. Smith is the author of two books of poems and the recipient of the James Laughlin Award and this year’s Pulitzer Prize for her book, Life on…

Come in from the fall chill and listen to two wonderful poets, who are also good friends, read from their latest work and then interview each other. Tracy K. Smith is the author of two books of poems and the recipient of the James Laughlin Award and this year’s Pulitzer Prize for her book, Life on Mars. Tina Chang has written three volumes of poetry and won numerous prizes and awards, she’s been the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn since 2010.

Wednesday, December 12

7:00pm

Come and spend the evening listening to two of fashion’s biggest image-makers. Kelly Klein and Sam Shahid discuss Klein’s new book and the world of image making. How does one shape and create an image that is able to intrigue, provoke, soothe, and sell? Come and find out.
Kelly Klein worked for…

Come and spend the evening listening to two of fashion’s biggest image-makers. Kelly Klein and Sam Shahid discuss Klein’s new book and the world of image making. How does one shape and create an image that is able to intrigue, provoke, soothe, and sell? Come and find out.

Kelly Klein worked for both Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein as an assistant designer. She then left the industry to work as a photographer. She’s worked for endless magazines including British Vogue, French Vogue, Interview and Harpers Bazaar. She’s also written and produced six books of photography.

Sam Shahid has been working as a Creative Director for over twenty-five years. His company Shahid & Company, Inc. works in the fashion, publishing, sports and beauty market. His clients include Versace, Asprey, and Abercrombie and Fitch. He’s also art directed over sixty books of photographs including Klein’s Pools: Reflections.

The Neuroscience, Evolution, and Ontology of Consciousness (Reality and Consciousness)

by Richard Grossinger

$16.95 List Price

Thursday, December 13

7:00pm

Join 2 renowned authors for an evening of conversation, readings and author Q & A to celebrate the publication of Dark Pool of Light: Reality and Consciousness: Volume Three.
In books such as Embyogenesis and Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings, Richard Grossinger brought together the subjects …

Join 2 renowned authors for an evening of conversation, readings and author Q & A to celebrate the publication of Dark Pool of Light: Reality and Consciousness: Volume Three.

In books such as Embyogenesis and Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings, Richard Grossinger brought together the subjects of biological embryology and consciousness as an embodied experience ("The embryo is the universe writing itself on its own body"). In Dark Pool of Light, a three volume series, Grossinger weaves neuroscience-based behaviorism and the phenomenology of "being" and reality together with psychological and psychospiritual views of "that single thing which is most difficult to understand or vindicate: our own existence." All three volumes of the book will be available at the talk and signing.

A Doorless Knocking into Night:

Poems (First Series: Poetry)

by Lexi Rudnitsky

$22.00 List Price

Thursday, December 13

7:00pm

Celebrating Lexi Rudnitsky: An evening of Poetry

Please join us for an evening of poetry in celebration and memory of Lexi Rudnitsky (1972-2005), the wonderful poet, teacher, and activist, on the eve of her birthday. The five featured readers include recent winners of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book in Poetry, among them Laura Cronk, author of Having…

Please join us for an evening of poetry in celebration and memory of Lexi Rudnitsky (1972-2005), the wonderful poet, teacher, and activist, on the eve of her birthday. The five featured readers include recent winners of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book in Poetry, among them Laura Cronk, author of Having Been an Accomplice, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Sightseer, Allison Seay, author of To See the Queen, Anne Shaw, author of Undertow, and Alexandra Teague, author of Mortal Geography.